FIELDING-LLOYD, Beth and MEÂN, Lindsey J. (2008). Standards and separatism: the discursive construction of gender in English soccer coach education. Sex Roles, 58 (1-2), 24-39. [Article]
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Abstract
Affirmative action is a problematic, but common,
organizational approach to redressing gender discrimination
as it fails to address discourses underlying organizational
definitions and practices in highly masculinized sites like
English football. Unstructured interviews with 27 key
personnel and participants in coach education in the north
of England within a regional “division” of the organization
regulating English football (“The FA”) were conducted to
explore the gendered construction and enactment of football
and coaching, and the framing of women-only (separatist)
coaching courses. Critical discourse analysis identified the
deployment of discourses concerning the undermining of
standards and the privileging of women as strategies used
to neutralize the significance of gender and previous gender
discrimination, while re/producing the centrality of masculinity for key definitions and identities.
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